 I hope you had a great break! As we start a new year let’s think about goals and resolutions:  Write one goal you have for school.  Write one goal you have for outside of school.  When you are done, you can take the dress code survey at this link or on my website.  Bell Ringer

   Economic Depression  Characterized by business failures, high unemployment, and falling prices  Worst depression in US history The Great Depression

 1.Overproduction of goods a.Manufacturers produced more than they could sell 2.Speculation a.People were speculating on the stock market b.Buying stocks on credit 3.Unstable Banks a.Some banks invested depositors' money into unsound investments 4.Restricted international trade a.High tariffs made it hard to sell to other countries Causes of the Great Depression

  “Black Tuesday”  October 29 th, 1929  Stock prices fell dramatically  The Stock Market crashed  The Crash set off a chain reaction  Investors lost savings  Companies could not sell stocks to raise money  Factories closed  Prices dropped  Unemployment grew  People lost their homes  Americans blamed President Herbert Hoover. Stock Market Crash

  Didn’t provide direct relief  Believed it would undermine American’s “Rugged Individualism.”  Believed Depression would go away on it’s own.  Gave loans to banks and businesses  Believed wealth would “trickle down” to Americans President Hoover’s Response

 Many people lost their jobs, savings, homes, etc.  Hoovervilles  Make-shift shanty towns appeared in the outskirts of towns  Many people relied on soup kitchens for food.  Mexican Repatriation Program  About half a million Mexican-American workers were forced to return to Mexico  People believed Mexican workers were taking white people’s jobs The Human Impact

 Women were expected to hold the household together while their husbands were out of work  First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt addressed this issue in her book, “Its Up to the Women.” Women

  Look at each document (pictures, letters, and chart)  Answer the questions about each document.  You may use Ch. 11 in the brown book or your notes if you need to look something up.  #1 can be found on page 202 Document Based Questions

  DOCUMENT 2 - Photograph of a squatter camp in California, Shanty housing facilities like the ones pictured were also known as “Hoovervilles,” and sprung up across America during the Great Depression.

Bell Ringer Answer both questions about the political cartoon: 1.What happens to the car as the years go by? 2.What does the cartoon represent (in regards to the Great Depression)?

 Dust Bowl  Droughts and over working the land turned the soil into dust  Giant wind storms swept the dust away  Farmers had to leave their land  Many farmers settled in California  Oakies: Farmers from Oklahoma who moved Dust Bowl

 Franklin Delano Roosevelt: FDR  President from  Democratic Candidate  Landslide victory  Saw the Depression as a National Emergency  Believed it was the president’s job to find a way back to prosperity President Franklin Roosevelt

 Had Polio and was unable to walk without aide  Did not let nation know  First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt  Traveled for FDR  Political Activist  Fireside Chats  Excellent speaker  Regularly addressed the nation by radio  Explained his policies in simple terms

 New Deal:  Roosevelt’s Plan for tackling the Great Depression and regaining American prosperity  Watch the Crash Course video and complete the handout.   Complete the reading and questions on the back of the video handout. The New Deal

Alphabet Soup  Name given to the many programs instituted under the New Deal

 Not everyone loved FDR or the New Deal  Conservatives  Liberty League  thought that FDR had gone too far  saw FDR as a dictator  Called FDR a “traitor to his class”  Liberals  Thought FDR didn’t go far enough  proposed giving government money directly to the needy Critics

  Schechter v. U.S.  Overruled part of the New Deal on the grounds that the FDR had exceeded his constitutional powers  Roosevelt’s response  Court Packing Scheme  he proposed that the President be able to add new justices for every Justice over 70 years old  Scheme failed and the American public was outraged at the attempt. The Supreme Court